New York, 2 February 2023 (TDI): The Ambassador of Malta Vanessa Frazier assumed the charge of presidency at the UN Security Council for February.
She said, “Today I assumed, on behalf of Malta, the Presidency of the UN Security Council. As a young girl and later as a young diplomat, never did I imagine that I would have the privilege to utter these words.”
Ambassador Frazier joined the Diplomatic Clout in 1992 as a student diplomat. She was confirmed into the post of First Secretary in 1994.
She also served in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a desk officer for the United States (US) and later in the Mediterranean Department.
She was posted to the Maltese Embassies in Washington, twice in Rome, London, Brussels, and New York, where she represented Malta on the UN Security Council.
Frazier was selected as a “Woman Inspiring Europe” by the European Institute for Gender Equality in 2013.
In 2020 she was listed as a “Woman Shaping Foreign Policy” by the Women Foreign Policy Group and she is also an active International Gender Champion.
She said on women’s inclusion, “The road to genuine gender equality requires collaboration across the intersecting dynamics of race, class, sexuality, and more.
The more we unite, the better our chance towards equality.”
Frazier was appointed Permanent Representative of Malta, in January 2020 to the United Nations in New York as well as to the International Seabed Authority based in Jamaica. During her tenure in New York, Frazier served as Vice President of the 74th UN General Assembly.
